Archive 2025

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman called for “peace and friendship with the Greek Cypriot people” in his message marking the 42nd anniversary of the Turkish Cypriots’ unilateral declaration of independence. “...

STYX Film Encounters returns this November with a new screening programme titled System Breakdown – a series of five landmark films dissecting the absurdities, failures and crises of modern systems. From ...

US President Donald Trump said on Friday he would likely sue the BBC next week for as much as $5 billion after the British broadcaster admitted it wrongly edited a video ...

The US National Archives on Friday released several batches of records related to the 1937 disappearance of famed aviator Amelia Earhart over the Pacific, following President Donald Trump’s recent order ...

President Donald Trump withdrew his endorsement of Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday, citing her recent criticism of his agenda in a notable rupture between Trump and one of ...

Cyprus’ economy recorded robust growth in the third quarter of 2025, with new national and European data confirming that the country continues to outperform the wider region. According to a flash ...

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) recently released its first comprehensive assessment of the total costs borne by investors in UCITS and AIFs. UCITS are EU-regulated retail investment funds ...

The traditional HR model is obsolete, according to Perha Group founder Mariana Hadjiantoniou, who built her consultancy on the need for a people-centred direction. Hadjiantoniou began her career in human ...

Finance and technology announcements at the inaugural TOURISE Summit in Riyadh set out major investment commitments and the launch of a new global digital framework for tourism. TOURISE said it ...

The long-awaited cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) agreement, signed Thursday after months of tough negotiations between employers and workers, has drawn mixed reactions across Cyprus’ political spectrum. Disy, on Friday, welcomed the ...

There was another twist to the saga of the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) on Wednesday at the third intergovernmental summit between Cyprus and Greece in Athens, which, apart from the ...

A culture of effective project management needs to be established in Cyprus to ensure the public benefits from governmental spending on major infrastructure and development initiative, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades ...

A survey conducted by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon last month found that a wall built by the Israeli military crosses the Blue Line, the de facto border, ...

The U.S. Justice Department has ordered federal prosecutors to provide examples of “unusual judicial system obstacles” they have faced during criminal or civil proceedings tied to immigration, assaults on ...

New school need to be built as the current ones are overcrowded outdated and lack necessary equipment the House education committee said after paying a visit to two schools and ...

A video of a woman filmed driving on a Limassol highway while simultaneously handling a laptop and a mobile phone on Wednesday night has gone viral on various social media ...

UN climate talks were nearing a midway point on Friday, with countries still wrangling over which issues they might be able to rally around in a final summit deal – and ...

French police shot and wounded a knife-wielding man in Montparnasse train station in central Paris on Friday – one day after the ten-year anniversary of the Paris terror attacks. A police ...

Gender equality is an essential pillar of peace, sustainable development, and democracy and has advanced across several institutional levels in recent years, gender equality commissioner Josie Christodoulou said on Friday ...

Iranian forces are believed to have seized a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker managed by Cyprus-based Columbia Shipmanagement after it abruptly changed course in the Gulf of Oman while sailing from the ...

Romania has summoned the Russian ambassador to Bucharest to protest the November 11 national airspace breach after recovered drone fragments “offered irrefutable proof of Russian origin”, the foreign ministry said on ...

A series of walks, workshops and creative meetings will bring together residents and artists this autumn to co-create in one Larnaca neighbourhood. The event series is presented by Larnaka 2030, the ...

A new digital platform for social care structures, designed to give the public clear and immediate access to all approved facilities under its supervision has been launched, the social welfare ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday praised the “extremely constructive” approach taken by Cyprus regarding relations between the European Union and Turkey, as it prepares to undertake the Council of ...